The Supreme Court dismissed two petitions challenging an Allahabad High Court order that favoured department-wise reservations for faculty posts in universities as opposed to university-wide quotas for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes.
ThePrint asks: SC okays dept-wise faculty quota: Harms university reservation or even spread of jobs?
Department-wise quotas is an attack on the very idea of reservations
Vimal Thorat
Convenor, National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights and former professor, IGNOU
Department-wise quota will only lead to the shrinking of SC, ST and OBC seats in the university. What happens when there’s only one position in the department—how will reservation work out then? With the 13-point quota roster system, this would mean that there will hardly be any chance for a marginalised person to make it to the department.
This is yet another attempt to curtail Dalit and OBC representation in universities.
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